INDEPENDENCE, Mo. -- Coming soon: a new Bess Truman. Truman Library officials this week are observing the 125th birthday anniversary of the famously private former first lady by releasing or ...

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INDEPENDENCE, Mo. -- Family papers detailing the private life of former first lady Bess Wallace Truman were released Friday, with no apparent bombshells about the wife of President Harry Truman in the ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Tammy Williams is an Archivist for the Truman Presidential Museum and Library with two videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2013 Call-In. Most common ...

Ever since Eleanor Roosevelt left Washington last April, the 70 members of the Mrs. Roosevelt’s Press Conference Association (founded in 1941) have faced technological unemployment. Bess Truman simply ...

President Donald Trump was inaugurated on January 20. First ladies have worn tailored suits and glamorous designer dresses to inaugural festivities. Many first ladies' inaugural gowns are displayed at ...

Harry Truman fussed about what was to be said. Bess Truman fussed about what was to be seen. But daughter Margaret prevailed. Last week, with Ed Murrow covering the British elections, Margaret Truman ...